What did we learn? Maryland edition

[Undone]

47 minutes ago, Red Five said:

 

Maryland was Sims 5th game, so preserving a redshirt is a moot point.

 

Minnesota

Colorado

La Tech

Purdue

Maryland

 

Thanks for that. I had checked and really thought Maryland was his 4th - thanks!

[BigRedBuster]

18 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

He seems like a guy that keeps getting better.  There's a number of nice runs on here.

[BigRedBuster]

Learned we have some fans that suck too.

 

 

[MyBloodIsRed16]

22 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Learned we have some fans that suck too.

 

 

 He's probably and Iowa plant 

[Enhance]

1 hour ago, soup said:

To the bolded.  Is it coaching though? (yes, I know there are drills and reinforcements, etc)  We have seen it now over how many coaches starting with Solich in 99.  I know everyone was kind of joking, but I am starting to wonder if it really does have something to do with the Adidas football, or something systemic within the program.

I admittedly used the term coaching a bit loosely here, but yes that's what I think it largely boils down to. I don't really buy the systemic argument (at least in terms of stuff going on for 20+ years. I don't think anything that happened more than a couple years ago is very relevant to today. If you get the right people and systems in place, you can turn most any program or franchise around.) The Adidas thing... I don't know enough about that to know whether or not to take that seriously, but I have seen other people mention it.

Back on coaching though, turnovers tend to happen when players have poor fundamentals, don't understand what they're supposed to be doing, and/or are trying to do too much.  A lot of that comes down to how they're being instructed and being set up for success, which is directly under the coach's purview. It's not always 100% the coach's fault, though. Players have to execute. And we've heard Rhule allude to this in some of his press conferences.

[BigRedBuster]

1 hour ago, soup said:

To the bolded.  Is it coaching though? (yes, I know there are drills and reinforcements, etc)  We have seen it now over how many coaches starting with Solich in 99.  I know everyone was kind of joking, but I am starting to wonder if it really does have something to do with the Adidas football, or something systemic within the program.

 

Talking about the Adidas footballs is possibly a worthwhile conversation as it pertains to fumbles.  But, I fail to see how that would affect QBs throwing TDs every third possession.  

[Mavric]

13 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

But, I fail to see how that would affect QBs throwing TDs every third possession.  

 

If there is a football that let's our QBs throw TDs every third possession, we should definitely use those.  

[tyrone_biggums]

33 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Talking about the Adidas footballs is possibly a worthwhile conversation as it pertains to fumbles.  But, I fail to see how that would affect QBs throwing TDs every third possession.  

It also doesn't seem to affect the other team catching our passes.

[Mavric]

 

[BigRedBuster]

Yeah….great….till you turn the ball over 5 times. 
 

 

[Mavric]

 

[Mavric]

 

[Mavric]

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

As I recall, the1999 Husker team that went 12-1 and ended the season ranked #2 led the NCAA in fumbles. 

 

Great team and a weird anomaly. 

[ColoradoHusk]

6 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

As I recall, the1999 Husker team that went 12-1 and ended the season ranked #2 led the NCAA in fumbles. 

 

Great team and a weird anomaly. 

Yep!  They had nearly 50 fumbles on the season.  McBride’s last defense definitely helped make up for all of those fumbles and turnovers. Unfortunately, a fumble (from Buckhalter, I think) near the goal line cost that ‘99 team the Texas game and a shot of the national championship.  That team also almost blew a game to Colorado when Dan Alexander dropped a perfect option pitch which could have scored a TD late against CU. NU only won in OT because CU’s kicker shanked a chip-shot FG at the end of regulation.